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This SAT Writing video covers the thermal conductivity of air and water.
Transcript
- 00:02
All right say t shmoop er's were on five of
- 00:04
eleven here and going to just keep hammering down We've
- 00:06
sent most effectively introduces the writer's discussion of thermal conductivity
- 00:09
since most effectively restart Air is a more challenging medium
- 00:14
for transferring heat than water pretty good to me so
Full Transcript
- 00:20
let's think about the paragraph deals with how air and
- 00:23
water compare in terms of thermal conductivity What it's about
- 00:28
don't overthink this one The best way to introduce a
- 00:30
discussion of comparisons is just to make the comparison you
- 00:34
normally have to get a phd to make that assertion
- 00:37
like the people who wrote this but that's it well
- 00:39
making a comparison naturally leads to a further discussion of
- 00:42
the two things being compared clever However we need to
- 00:45
be introduced to the overall idea before the supporting evidence
- 00:49
all that stuff starts getting thrown around that's why it's
- 00:52
not effective to explain that water is more conductive than
- 00:55
air before explaining why that's important right Like you're saying
- 00:59
well i really didn't like your shoes and yes that
- 01:02
dress really did make you look fat You don't really
- 01:04
want to go there until you've explained that dating them
- 01:06
was kind of like the devil or over your unafraid
- 01:09
they don't do that all right And that's Why shmoop
- 01:11
doesn't do lifestyle guides to the world just in case
- 01:14
you're wondering so while it's true that aaron water both
- 01:16
transfer heat right there That information alone does not fit
- 01:20
with the flow of the paragraph since the first sentence
- 01:22
sets us up for a comparison And finally yes it
- 01:26
may be true that water is a better medium than
- 01:28
aaron transferring things and conduct sting noises and electricity and
- 01:32
stuff well in certain cases that's True but this sentence
- 01:34
is not specific enough to provide support for that claim
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So don't change It airs a more challenging medium for
- 01:41
transferring heat than water and that's it So yeah we're
- 01:44
done and we're going to let the whole date thing 00:01:47.574 --> [endTime] go into the sunset
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